paperback
English language
Published Aug. 24, 2016 by Little, Brown Book Group.
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.
In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of …
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.
In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. DEEP WORK is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
Un peu verbeux et des conseils assez simples (aujourd'hui mais peut-être pas à la sortie du livre) et d'une personne avec une situation privilégiée. Un livre un peu "à l'américaine" pour moi.
Pretty good tips about hyperfocus/the zone/flow state. Kind of repetitive, and not mind-blowing, though.
Mi è piaciuto molto. Newport si fa araldo di uno stile organizzativo quasi marziale. Complicato se si vuole implementare al 100% e più adatto ad alcune mansioni che non ad altre.
Pone però spunti interessanti sui tempi moderni e come le distrazioni sono quasi totalmente integrate nel nostro modo di intendere il lavoro.
Some good tips about methods of work, but ultimately glorifies hustle culture and productivity performance. While these tenets may benefit individuals, they will ultimately fail to meaningfully change the society we live in (apparently this is a superfluous moral argument). I picked this up because I thought Digital Minimalism was ok, but this one is blatant in its lack of critique of the reasons why meaningful engagement (read deep work) occur. For-profit businesses that operate not on common good, but on extractive tactics that steer people away from meaningful dialogue, create further polarization and care little about the health of people or planet is but one of these reasons that is acknowledged, but not questioned. The other is the assumption that everyone has an infinite amount of potential leisure time to recapture by being more effective at concentration. I hope someone extracts the good parts of this book and re-aligns …
Some good tips about methods of work, but ultimately glorifies hustle culture and productivity performance. While these tenets may benefit individuals, they will ultimately fail to meaningfully change the society we live in (apparently this is a superfluous moral argument). I picked this up because I thought Digital Minimalism was ok, but this one is blatant in its lack of critique of the reasons why meaningful engagement (read deep work) occur. For-profit businesses that operate not on common good, but on extractive tactics that steer people away from meaningful dialogue, create further polarization and care little about the health of people or planet is but one of these reasons that is acknowledged, but not questioned. The other is the assumption that everyone has an infinite amount of potential leisure time to recapture by being more effective at concentration. I hope someone extracts the good parts of this book and re-aligns it with a trauma-informed, community minded lens.
Extrem gut. Hat mir sehr geholfen. Werde versuchen, das Wissen in Zukunft anzuwenden.
I read this book because I wanted to learn more about making use of deeply focused work. This book delivered only partially. There are some interesting pointers on how to integrate more highly-focused work into your life and how to expand your mental capabilities... but a lot of them will be exponentially harder for neurodivergent people, and the suggestions for integrating more "deep work" are probably not feasible for people who have caretaker responsability or people in precarized work. Nearly all of his success stories are people who have a pretty high degree of privilege to begin with.
In the first part, I got annoyed with his sales pitch for deep work - I already knew it was something potentially beneficial and open-plan offices are horrible. Maybe he needed to make this sales pitch because corporate culture is so invested in inhumane, focus-destroying work practices?
I also don't get his …
I read this book because I wanted to learn more about making use of deeply focused work. This book delivered only partially. There are some interesting pointers on how to integrate more highly-focused work into your life and how to expand your mental capabilities... but a lot of them will be exponentially harder for neurodivergent people, and the suggestions for integrating more "deep work" are probably not feasible for people who have caretaker responsability or people in precarized work. Nearly all of his success stories are people who have a pretty high degree of privilege to begin with.
In the first part, I got annoyed with his sales pitch for deep work - I already knew it was something potentially beneficial and open-plan offices are horrible. Maybe he needed to make this sales pitch because corporate culture is so invested in inhumane, focus-destroying work practices?
I also don't get his abhorrence of email, but perhaps I'm just an outlier in that my email influx is manageable? And although I have come to loathe Facebook and mostly avoid Twitter and Instagram, his "social media is evil and you ought to quit" chapter doesn't convince me either.
Overall, there were a few concepts I might revisit at some point, but otherwise, this book was a disappointment, not because the concept of "deep work" is bad, but because the book is coming from such a privileged and limited perspective.
Distractions are plenty in the digital world. What we trade off to distraction is not just our attention. This book makes you realise why Deep Work is essential to produce anything creative. And distractions are the antithesis of Deep Work. Mentioning habits of people who consistently produced acclaimed deep work, this book might nudge you to plan your life around and away from distractions.
Structuring, blocking, and processes for work. The author was ahead of his time on social media and productive work rituals. He’s also probably the reason I can never find contact info on personal websites now.
If you’re wondering how a full length book can be written around the statement “Do better work”, so was I. But there are many helpful strategies to adopt for your own time management and professional accessibility. Some methods may be difficult if you’re not on the same level as Richard Branson, like “if you want to contact me, pay up”, or “tell me how badly you need to contact me, then fill out this survey, and we’ll see”. But some were very helpful, like shutdown rituals, fixed schedule productivity, and taking a break from focus with productive meditation outdoors.
این بازبینی بر اساس نسخه ترجمه خانم ناهید ملکی است.
یک کتاب موفقیت دیگه؟
شاید براتون سوال باشه که این کتاب هم از اون کتابهای موفقیته که داخلش پر از شعار و حرفهای انگیزشیه که بعد از خوندنش یک کلمه حرف حساب دست آدم رو نمیگیره یا اینکه واقعا حرفی برای گفتن داره؟
سوال خوبیه، عقیده دارم کتاب روی مرز هستش و برای همین هم ۴ ستاره بهش دادم، میتونم بگم که بخشی از محتوای کتاب به چشم بنده خیلی به سختی رنگ عملی شدن به خودش می گیره و بیشتر توی حرف زیباست، منتها بخش دیگر کتاب به عقیده من ارزنده است، که در ادامه بیشتر توضیح میدم.
قلم و نگارش
کتاب از نظر نگارشی تکرار زیاد داره، مدام یه سری نکات رو تکرار میکنه و یادآوری میکنه که البته زننده نمیشه و اتفاقا توجه رو جلب میکنه و تا حدی کمک میکنه که نکاتی که از نظر نویسنده …
این بازبینی بر اساس نسخه ترجمه خانم ناهید ملکی است.
یک کتاب موفقیت دیگه؟
شاید براتون سوال باشه که این کتاب هم از اون کتابهای موفقیته که داخلش پر از شعار و حرفهای انگیزشیه که بعد از خوندنش یک کلمه حرف حساب دست آدم رو نمیگیره یا اینکه واقعا حرفی برای گفتن داره؟
سوال خوبیه، عقیده دارم کتاب روی مرز هستش و برای همین هم ۴ ستاره بهش دادم، میتونم بگم که بخشی از محتوای کتاب به چشم بنده خیلی به سختی رنگ عملی شدن به خودش می گیره و بیشتر توی حرف زیباست، منتها بخش دیگر کتاب به عقیده من ارزنده است، که در ادامه بیشتر توضیح میدم.
قلم و نگارش
کتاب از نظر نگارشی تکرار زیاد داره، مدام یه سری نکات رو تکرار میکنه و یادآوری میکنه که البته زننده نمیشه و اتفاقا توجه رو جلب میکنه و تا حدی کمک میکنه که نکاتی که از نظر نویسنده مهمتر بوده پررنگتر بشه.
نکته قابل توجه دیگه کتاب داستانهای زیادی هستش که از اشخاص مختلف داخلش نقل میشه که طبیعتا باعث تاثیرگذاری بیشتر کتاب میشه، البته نباید نادیده بگیریم که این شکل داستانگویی باعث طولانی شدن و گاهی برعکس انتظار خسته کننده شدن هم میشه.
ساختار کتاب
از نظر ساختاری کتاب دو بخش داره، بخش اول با عنوان «ایده» حاوی سه فصل هستش که قصد داره ایده کار عمیق رو توصیف بده و همچنین مخاطب رو متقاعد کنه که کار عمیق تاثیر مثبت روی روند پیشرفت دانشورزان میگذاره.
بخش دوم کتاب با عنوان «قوانین» از ۴ فصل تشکیل شده که در واقع هر کدام مجموعهای تکنیکها، قواعد و نکات زیر مجموعه موضوع فصل هستند.
اگر با مفهوم کار عمیق آشنا هستید و صرفا قصد دارید به کار ببندیدش میتونید مستقیما از بخش دوم کتاب شروع کنید، چون چندان ارجاع زیادی به بخش اول نداره.
برداشت من
چیزی که این کتاب به بنده اضافه کرد، شاید بر خلاف انتظار نویسنده بیشتر آگاهی از مفهوم «کار کمعمق» بود تا کار عمیق، نه اینکه کار عمیق مفهوم ارزندهای نیست ولی کنترل کارهای کمعمق سادهتر هستش و پاداش نقد تری هم داره برای همین به نظرم کوچکترین و اولین قدمها باید از کنترل کردن کارهای کمعمق باشه و نه ایجاد عادت برای کارهای عمیق
در بدبینانهترین حالت شاید اکثر روشها و تکنیکهایی که آقای نیوپورت توی کتاب قید کرده رو به طور مستمر به کار نگیرم ولی حداقل اثر مهمی که روی من داشت این بود که حواسم رو به کارهای کمعمقی که در طول روزها انجام میدم جمع کنم، معتقدم که این یک آگاهی ارزشمند محسوب میشه.
آگاهیی که اگر با صرف زمان و انرژی بیشتر همراه بشه میتونه منجر به کنترل کارهای کمعمق و در قدمهای بعدی بیشتر کردن عمق فعالیتهای روزانهام هم همراه بشه و در نهایت ایجاد عادت برای انجام کار عمیق درست و حسابی
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Too chatty and anecdotal for my taste but some good insights here.
Really light on content, heavy on examples that seem tacked on embellish what would otherwise be a twenty page pamphlet.
I found this book more valuable than nearly all other productivity/business books I've read.
You'll really want to practice active reading/listening while taking this book in though.
This book meanders through many different ideas/studies/analogies. I would have forgotten most of the insights I had while reading this book had I not been taking notes.
As I continue to improve my work habits, I plan to reflect on the mountain of notes I took while listening to this audiobook.
Sometimes we need to be hit in the face in order to realise that the work we are doing is probably not valuable and that we can, for sure, achieve more by using better the time that we have got.
If you think that the previous statement applies to you, it might be good to pick this book from the shelf and start reading it.
As someone that has been dealing with the illusion of being busy all the time, denying going-out with friends or even cancelling some family plans, because I was busy, I felt that Cal Newport has given me what I needed right when I felt I could use it more. Right before college. A time when there are so many opportunities ahead of me, that I would have surely thought of jumping in all of them, without caring too much about the quality of the result …
Sometimes we need to be hit in the face in order to realise that the work we are doing is probably not valuable and that we can, for sure, achieve more by using better the time that we have got.
If you think that the previous statement applies to you, it might be good to pick this book from the shelf and start reading it.
As someone that has been dealing with the illusion of being busy all the time, denying going-out with friends or even cancelling some family plans, because I was busy, I felt that Cal Newport has given me what I needed right when I felt I could use it more. Right before college. A time when there are so many opportunities ahead of me, that I would have surely thought of jumping in all of them, without caring too much about the quality of the result of each individual chosen activity. Now, I would think twice before doing that, think twice before deciding to reply to an e-mail that has arrived in my Inbox, think twice before deciding whether or not I should pick up the phone while I am waiting in line to buy the groceries from the market. I might kill boredom and my parents have been long-telling me (and also my teachers) that I should not allow myself to get bored. Keep your fingers busy all the time, do something, just do not settle. And here I am, ten years of following this advice, but with such a bad concentration skill. Dealing with the urges of receiving social confirmation from the social media websites and trying to keep myself from replying to e-mails the moment they arrive. Are those so important? I might not say so.
For me, it seems like it was an awakening call that I have been waiting for to receive. I have started a personal experiment of giving up on the social media websites I have been using on a daily basis and also told myself that I will work only until a certain time of the day. I will see how this works and document it at the same time here: medium.com/@stochitaradu
Thank you, Cal, for the hand!
an average essay with arguable findings.
also, it could be fitted into a pocket book format but it wouldn't sell itself hence they added some stuff in there as a buffer...
Although it gets repetitive a bit in the middle, the gist of the book can be summarized as - Do deep work instead of the shallow. You have to actively work on your habits to keep yourself from spiraling into the distraction laden life that the current online culture has inculcated. All this sounds like common advice and a touch of self-help vibe in the title of this book may make you skeptical to pick it up, but the advices and strategies Cal Newport suggests is applicable to everyone in the 21st century. If you can't make it through the entire book, read at least few of his blog posts on Cal Newport: Blog .
